So there was President Obama, giving his bazillionth speech on health care, droning yet again that "now is the hour when we must seize the moment," the same moment he's been seizing every day of the week for the past year, only this time his genius photo-op guys thought it would look good to have him surrounded by men in white coats.

Why is he doing this? Why let "health" "care" "reform" stagger on like the rotting husk in a low-grade creature feature who refuses to stay dead no matter how many stakes you pound through his chest?

Because it's worth it. Big time. I've been saying in this space for two years that the governmentalization of health care is the fastest way to a permanent left-of-center political culture. It redefines the relationship between the citizen and the state in fundamental ways that make limited government all but impossible. In most of the rest of the Western world, there are still nominally "conservative" parties, and they even win elections occasionally, but not to any great effect (Let's not forget that Jacques Chirac was, in French terms, a "conservative").

The result is a kind of two-party one-party state: Right-of-center parties will once in a while be in office, but never in power, merely presiding over vast left-wing bureaucracies that cruise on regardless.

Republicans seem to have difficulty grasping this basic dynamic. Less than three months ago, they were stunned at the way the Democrats managed to get 60 senators to vote for the health bill. Then Scott Brown took them back down to 59, and Republicans were again stunned to find the Dems talking about ramming this thing into law through the parliamentary device of "reconciliation."(continued)

I absolutely believe that RAT leaders are willing to pay *any* price (in the short/medium term,at least) to get HusseinCare.Particularly if it's those other than they themselves who are tossed out.Bella Pelosi knows she's got a House gig for as long as she wants it.And I'll wager all I have that Dirty Harry has been promised (*secretly* promised) something *very* sweet by Hussein for when he's tossed out on his hindquarters in November.

I just pray that the Republicans can hold them off until January of next year when there'll be nothing to worry about.

This happened in Hawaii. Even though we have a Republican Governor, she can hardly get anything done or passed as the whole rest of Hawaii’s legislature is pure left wing zombie’s. I mean from the two Senators to the House members down to the state house and senate. All democrats. I laugh when someone on Freepers says ,be sure to call your representative and let them know how you feel. I might just as well go out and talk to my concrete fence. They rule and don’t give a crap what we the people want or feel.

I believe that Obamacare is first and foremost about ObamaEgo. He wants to go down in history as the person who did what no one else could: create a “universal” [read socialist] health care system. May even be a grudgefest with the Clintons.

Whatever, anything else is secondary to his ego. JMO.

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posted on 03/06/2010 5:17:10 PM PST
by freespirited
(We're not the Party of No. We're the Party of HELL NO!!!)

This is certainly a very important Mark Steyn column (and he has been my favorite columnist for a while now).

If Congress passes Obamacare it will be signing the death warrant for the US. Citizens will no longer look to their own efforts to improve their lives but will instead be consumed with getting the government to do it for them. “Health care” will be the excuse for government to micromanage anything and everything. We will all become “special interests” seeing government handouts as a “right,” with little regard as to what it does to the nation as a whole.

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” ~~ President Ronald Reagan

OBAMANOMICSTRICKLE DOWN DESTRUCTION of the economy

Bambi doesnt keep his promises...so buyer beware!

SET THEIR LOCAL AND DC LINES ON FIRE!

PLEASE ASK THEM TO REPEAL THE BIG NEW FEES in TRICARE for Life, the retired Military over 65 secondary health ins. which they passed in a DOD bill. They promised our Military these benefits, and our Military have earned them.

Rename, repackage, rewrite it a tad smaller, and sell another pig in a poke. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Militarys secondary health ins. (DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011 NEEDS TO BE REPEALED!
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This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollees cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.) http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf

Tricare fee increases imposed last week by the Defense Department will be repealed by a provision of the compromise 2010 defense authorization bill unveiled Wednesday by House and Senate negotiators.

The fee increases were announced on Sept. 30 and took effect on Oct. 1, but the defense bill, HR 2647, includes a provision barring any fee increases until the start of fiscal 2011.

Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bill Matz, president of the National Association for Uniformed Services, said the announcement of fee increases was shocking considering that the Obama administration promised earlier this year to hold off on any new fee Tricare fee increases until fiscal 2011.

President Obama and DoD assured NAUS and the entire military family earlier this year that there would rightly be no increases in any Tricare fees in fiscal 2010, Matz said. We took them at their word, and I cant believe that a co-pay increase like this was allowed to go forward, he added.

A right, in the traditional American lexicon laid out by the likes of Thomas Jefferson, is something that exists by virtue of our humanity. It is inalienable and we are endowed with these rights by our creator. No government or institution has the power to take away these rights. You exist, therefore these rights exist. In the leftist sense of the word, though, a right is something very different. In fact, its not a right at all: its a handout provided to you by government, often at exorbitant costs to society.

The ones who control the language end up controlling the agenda and that is why it is so important to stop such nonsense right in its tracks. Your definition of what is a right and what the left defines as a right should be ingrained into our youth along with a zillion of other 'agenda seizing words'. The words 'tolerance' and 'diversity' come to mind...along with 'choice', and so on....

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posted on 03/06/2010 5:59:12 PM PST
by Asfarastheeastisfromthewest...
(The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it.....Mencken)

But when government monopolizes the system, when government first decides what kind of care youll get, and when government next decides if theyll even pay for it, your right to health care no longer exists

A lot of Republicans are complicit with the Democrats. I can never again wholeheartedly trust the Republicans after George W. Bush and most Republican Party leaders joined with the Democrats in the amnesty fiasco.

I acknowledge that I need to do the work when it comes to finding out how each Republican in Washington has voted over the last eight years on a variety of issues.

The way that John McCain became the candidate for president is extremely suspicious. His campangn was out of money and declared dead by the MSM. Then, suddenly, those left out of the original dozen GOP candidates dropped out and supported McCain.

McCain and his team spent more energy tearing Sarah Palin down than they did campaigning against Obama. I think McCain threw the race. I have never trusted McCain, but I thought Fred Thompson and even Romney could have beaten Obama. Why did they drop out? Why did they support that little RINO?

No, it will be very difficult to trust the Republican Party again. New faces are needed. If those new faces get elected they need to be under a microscope from day one in that cesspool that is Washington, DC.

Huckabee was the spoiler. They did want Romney. I don’tknow. I think that they know about Obama’s true citizenship. They’re thinking the worst thing that can happen is to have the guy declare an illegal president.

Therefore, the idea for republicans is to take back the congress and white house. But they have to fight this health care take over.

I don’t pretend to have the answer, but I still can’t figure out why all of those GOP candidates who were in the race at the time dropped out so quickly and supported John McCain. McCain was known as a RINO who could be counted on to vote against Republican initiatives frequently.

I thought the little punk was just perverse. He crossed the aisle to join Democrats repeatedly. He was known for this.

As far as Obama’ legality, I can only hope that it is proven that he is not a natural born citizen. I don’t see it happening. If it did happen I believe the Democratic Party would be destroyed. (Not that they don’t deserve it.) But it would be impossible for them to claim that they did not know that Obama was illegal.

That is the way it is here in Montana. Efforts have been made to change the Open Primary system, but they are fought successfully every session by the Democrats, who always vote in a bloc.

We recently had an old, “eccentric” gentleman who ran for election to the Senate. He had run in every election for years. First as a Democrat, then as an Independent and finally as a Republican.

His stump speech always addressed his belief that America should adopt a Parlimentary system of government. That was it. Nothing about current issues. I am sure that Democrats crossed the line and voted for him in the Primary. He was the easiest to beat.

Some Republicans insisted that a Democrat would not want to miss a chance to vote for either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. I pointed out that they didn’t really care which one of them won because they are both radical leftists who would have the same policies.

The goofy old man won that Primary, but of course was not elected. Open Primaries are a tool that the Democratsuse with great success.

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